Comprehensive resources

• Reading the signs
  Year 8 and Year 9 groups creatively “re-sign” their schools in a writing, poetry and D&T project
• A day of publishing, podcasting & engineering
  

Case studies

• Writing and Digging for Victory
  A writing and history project for a Year 7 Nurture Group based around a ‘Dig for Victory’ allotment in the school grounds
  Cator Park School
• Writing about the Iron Man
  Key stage 1 pupils love writing in creative ways about an inspiring book character
  Nevill Road Infant School
• Visual approaches to writing: a cross phase project
  Primary and secondary students raise their confidence and enjoyment of writing and reading multimodal texts
• The FOUND project: collaborative fiction using new media
  Collaborative fiction using new media
  Queensbridge School, Birmingham and if:book London
• The close encounters project
  Using experiences to improve writing
  Grangehurst Primary School
• Spoken Words
  A series of workshops in performance poetry led by six spoken-word artists in a secondary school
  Kelmscott Secondary School, in collaboration with Apples and Snakes (http://www.applesandsnakes.org)
• Space Week 2010 - Journey of Discovery
  To write beyond the classroom and to promote cross-curricular writing in Science
  Pardes House Primary School
• Reading the signs (Year 8)
  Year 8 students re-sign their library with their own original poetry and writing
  Turves Green Boys’ Technology and Humanities College
• Pirate writing
  Whole-school pirate-themed writing day
  All Saints’ C of E Primary School
• Lunchtime journalism club
  Hard to reach primary school group are motivated to write by creating their own school newsletter
  Ashmount Primary School
• International Week
  Providing stimulating activities to encourage and improve writing across the whole school.
  Orrishmere Primary School
• Graphic Truths
  Young people between the ages of 16 and 19 get the chance to work with professional artists and writers to create, publish and distribute their very own high quality comic magazine
  Eastside Educational Trust (Arts Education Charity) in collaboration with students from Tower Hamlets College, Stoke Newington School, New Vic Plaistow, Stratford, Christ the King Sixth Form College and Lambeth College.
• Goal! secondary sports journalism project
  KS3 and KS4 students using sports journalism in the workplace
  Harrow Way Community School, Hampshire Inspection and Advisory Service (HIAS) and the Aim Higher Project
• Giant eggs
  A strange occurrence to inspire writing
  Lantern Lane Primary School
• Five Days in a School
  A Year 8 poetry workshop with a professional poet
  Hardenhuish Secondary School
• Everybody Writes in Stockport
  A local authority runs writing projects across a number of primary schools
• Everybody Writes in Science
  Explanatory writing that is meaningful, playful and takes writing to a whole school audience.
  Kidbrooke School & Arts College
• Everybody writes - don’t they?
  KS1 and KS2 letter writing project
  Weston Park Junior School
• Arsenal double club
  Premier League Football Club's Education Programme
  Arsenal FC
• Aliens at St Mark’s Primary School
  Staff plan an exciting event to celebrate and inspire writing
  St Mark’s Primary School

Brief project summaries

• Writing clubs
  Trialling a short series of extra-curricular writing clubs to motivate and support targeted children
  Holyhead Secondary School
• Writing clubs
  A short series of extra-curricular writing clubs to motivate and support targeted children.
  St Mary's Church of England Primary School
• Writing about giant eggs
  A mysterious occurrence inspires writing at a primary school
  St Mary the Virgin CE VA Primary School, Gillingham, Dorset
• Writer in Residence
  A poet ran poetry-writing workshops at a primary school over a term.
  Binfield Church of England Primary School
• Write Path
  To engage children (especially boys) in enjoying writing
  Write Path
• Visual literacy project
  Visual literacy for boys’ engagement
  Manchester Art Gallery/Ravensbury Community Primary School
• See it! Do it! Write it!
  Boys writing with ICT, drama and visual media
  Lancashire Literacy Team
• Raising boys achievement in literacy
  UKLA and PNS report
  PNS/ UKLA/ Essex LEA/ Medway LEA
• Football blogs
  Developing language skills in response to a sporting event
  Michael Farraday Primary School and Roehampton University
• Drama for learning and creativity (D4LC)
  Impact of drama on learning and creativity
  NESTA/ Norfolk Services for Children
• Can’t write, won’t write!
  Raising boys' achievement writing project
  UKLA / East Riding of Yorkshire Council
• Boys’ writing: motivating reluctant writers
  Boys writing in journalism project
  Northampton After School Clubs
• Apples & Snakes Poets in Education Scheme
  Secondary school students work with poets and love writing
  Woodbridge High School, Redbridge, London